space girl comic
not exactly as soft as a teddy bear, but it’s really the friendship that counts.
thomas you cheeky bugger! this is just a classic sedna strip you shamelessly stole from yourself! okay, fair point. but i just wanted to see it drawn less badly. is that such a crime?
and honestly, i don’t feel too bad about stealing from past me given how little that lazy git ever did for me.
subtle throwback to comic #11. it’s almost like i’m a genius and planned this all along (i didn’t).
maybe the reason sedna is always wearing the same hoodie is that it was the only one she could find with a matching miniature version.
:3
i’m just gonna drop the whole quote here before y’all accuse me of plagiarism.
“some part of our being knows this is where we came from. we long to return. and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. we’re made of star stuff. we are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” – carl sagan (super smart science man)
calling a star exploding a “new” star and the birth of the universe “the big bang” is classic example of scientists naming things.
i’m sure you all learned at school that dinosaur means “terrible lizard”, despite them being neither. even worse is iguanadon, which means “iguana’s tooth”, because that’s what its discoverer thought he was looking at.
on the other hand there’s colymbosathon ecplecticos, which translates to “astounding swimmer with a large penis”. which is without a doubt the best dinosaur name. good job scientists!
hope i did the maths right here (thank god for wolfram alpha). i love ridiculous scale comparisons for supernovae, but there’s no beating the classic one by randall munroe (the xkcd guy):
“which of the following would be brighter:
a supernova, seen from as far away as the sun is from the earth, or
the detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?”
now i’m just waiting for some smartarse in the comments to point out that if you actually did magic a ball of tnt that large into existence it would just collapse under the weight of its own gravity and explode as a supernova anyway. shut up, it’s a thought exercise. don’t be that guy.
obviously this is a much more complex and interesting subject than i could possibly squeeze into a four panel comic, so i highly recommend you go watch the episode of ‘crash course astronomy’ on youtube about high mass stars.
also in case you thought i made a mistake with the timeline, no, a smaller star actually lasts much much longer than a larger star, as it’s much cooler and thus burns its fuel slower. while the largest stars we know of (hypergiants) last only millions of years, the smallest stars (red dwarfs) can last for trillions of years. seriously. trillions with a t.
i’ll probably do a comic about this some day, so i should shut up now before i spoil it.
who would win?
100 billion colossal nuclear deathballs
or 1 explodey boi
probably should point out that not every supernova is quite as bright as its entire galaxy (there’s not a lot of room for nuanced explanation in these comics), but the fact that it’s even comparable to hundreds of billions of stars is impossible to get your head around.
poor dini. it’s not easy being sedna’s future husband.
fun fact: the current record holder of visual supernova discoveries is actually my grandfather.
it’s no use running dini.
there is no escape.